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a software design and devel-opment company formed by Chris Elliott andRichard Edwards to develop the Timeline com-puter role-playing system.They have beeninvolved with role-playing games from theirearly days in the UK,and contributed gamesrelated articles,scenarios and short fiction tomagazines and publishers in the UK and USA,aswell as designing board games.  \nChris was born in Brighton in 1955.After leavingschool,he worked in a variety of jobs beforestudying Communication Studies at SheffieldCity Polytechnic.A hopeless junkie for the print-ed word,who will read cereal packets if there isnothing else around,he now lives in North-EastLondon with his wife Sally,daughter Jenny,anddense but loveable Burmese cat Tigger.  \nRichard was born in Canning Town,East  \nLondon,in 1956,and has lived there ever since.On leaving school he went to work at North EastLondon Polytechnic in the Psychology Department.This gave him an allergy to bureaucracies,anda firm belief that computing is an occult art rather than a science.He is unmarried,but not opposedto it in principle.Master of the Real World Random Access Filing System,his living space makes ahamster look obsessively tidy.Achievements include his nickname,Fiveburgers'.  \nMike Lewis,who did the lion's share of the programming,took his computing degree at NorthStaffs Polytechnic,and then became a freelance programmer.He wrote Redhawk,Kwah,and TheMystery of Arkham Manor,as well as a Halo Jones game which seems fated not to be published.His ambition is to settle down,having had 21 addresses in 26 years.  \nCarl Cropley,who drew the graphics,was once a refrigeration engineer,but since 1984 has workedas an illustrator and computer graphics artist.He did the graphics for Mike's games,and also didbackgrounds and covers for REDFOX,voted Best New British Comic in the 1986 Eagle awards.Healso lectures in Computer Graphic art at a Nottingham College  \n# HOUNDoFHADOWManual\n\nS  \n|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | London……   …  \u003Cbr>Halesworth………   | Departs……       …  \u003Cbr>Arrives …     …   | 0500  \u003Cbr>0840   | 1000  \u003Cbr>1328   | 1230  \u003Cbr>1540   | 1520  \u003Cbr>1830   |  |\n\n# INTRODUCTION\n\nThe Hound of Shadow is set in England in the 1920s,a country recovering from theravages of the Great War,when extremes of wealth and poverty rubbed shoulders,when it was fashionable to cultivate an interest in spiritualism and magic.In thecourse of the game you become involved with murder,revenge,the occult,daemonicpossession and other horrors that should have died a very long time ago.You willdiscover many of the awful things that lurk behind a seemingly humdrum existence,and learn through bitter experience that ignorance really can be bliss.  \nThe Hound of Shadow uses the Timeline computer role-playing system to create aCthulhu Mythos story,inspired by the works of H.P.Lovecraft and set in the 1920s.Thefollowing introduction explains what 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